This is something else. 25% of our economy has been captured as "carried interest" and that is private equity profits that compound tax free indefinately and only taxed if taken out as income. There is also a corp structure that avoids inheritance tax. Then we get the fantasy of infinate growth on a finite planet. Also the market is nearly myopically focused on the next few financial quarters and our system is full of cash grabs that gut the underllying businesses as they can load a corp up with debt used to buy back shares and artificially inflate prices. This is all before you consider nearly all money is created by banks at interest, while the interest itself is never created. This caused the global slave trade, colonialism, the modern work grind and the focus on fossil fuels and militarism. Marx was very wrong about the solution but his analysis was accurate and in line with classical economics. His views were shifted by Eingels who was a banking heir. Our "civilization" is a house of cards which is going to collapse, likely the next year or two. 4% chance each of the next two years of a Carrigton event which will blow out most electronics for half or more of the planet at once. The climate may also enter runaway warming as major clinate shifts happen over about a dozen years and this one has begun, never have CO2 levels risen so rapidly, even during major extinction events, tge last time CO2 levels were this level our planet was significantly warmer. This time it's so rapid that things won't be able to adapt. Add in pandemic risk, war and or crop failures as other risks. Any one can push a collapse two, three or more and that's it for most humans. If mire than one or two those nuke plants start melting down that alone could be the icing on sm extinction cake which will make Mad Max look like Sunday Roller Skating in Central Park.
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